What Is A Lawful Marriage?

3. “REALLY MARRIED” OR “ACCOMODATIVELY MARRIED” SEXUAL INTERCOURSE “BENEFIT OF CLERGY” TRIAL MARRIAGE BAPTISM FOR REMISSION OF MARRIAGE What Is A Lawful Marriage?

4. What Is A Lawful Marriage? THERE IS MARRIAGE WHICHIS LAWFUL SUCH MARRIAGE IS ESTABLISHED BY A COVENANT OF JEHOVAH ONLY IN THIS RELATIONSHIP DOES GOD ALLOW SEXUAL COHABITATION

5. “The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Matthew 19:3-6

6. “The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” THE ATTACK Matthew 19:3-6

7. “The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” THE ANSWER Matthew 19:3-6

8. One Man for One Woman IN THE BEGINNING… • THERE WERE NO SPARES, NO OPTIONS, NO ALTERNATIVES • “The first human male and female were intended solely for each other (there was no one else to marry) and this norm of an indissoluble union was intended for each succeeding pair” • THIS IS GOD’S INTENDED CREATION, A NON‑OPTIONAL INDISSOLUBLE UNION MATTHEW 19:4 ”And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,…”

9. PROSKOLLAO “to adhere to closely, be faithfully devoted to, join” A Strong Bond IN THE BEGINNING… • GOD INTENDED TWO PEOPLE TO BE “GLUED TOGETHER” • MARRIAGE IS NOT ONLY A SETTING APART UNTO EACH OTHER, AND A CONSECRATING TO EACH OTHER, BUT IT IS A SETTING APART AND A CONSECRATION OF THAT UNION TO GOD MATTHEW 19:5 ”And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”

10. One Flesh IN THE BEGINNING… • THEY HAVE BECOME ONE PERSON IN THE UNION OF MARRIAGE • THEY ABANDON THEMSELVES TO EACH OTHER • THEY BECOME THE TOTAL POSSESSION OF EACH OTHER • THEY ARE ONE IN MIND AND SPIRIT AND GOALS AND DIRECTION AND EMOTION MATTHEW 19:6 ”Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

11. WIVES HUSBANDS Submitting to One Another THE MANNER OF LOVE IS ASACRIFICIAL LOVE THE MANNER OF LOVE IS A SANCTIFYING LOVE THE MANNER OF LOVE IS ACARING LOVE THE MANNER OF LOVE IS AUNBREAKABLE LOVE THE MATTER OF SUBMISSIONSUBMIT YOURSELVES THE MANNER OF SUBMISSION AS UNTO THE LORD THE MOTIVE OF SUBMISSIONHUSBAND IS HEAD THE MANNER OF SUBMISSION EVEN AS CHRIST

12. SYZEUGNYMI “to fasten to one yoke, yoke together; to join together unite, of the marriage tie” A Divine Bond IN THE BEGINNING… • GOD MAKES MARRIAGES; HE PUTS TWO PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A UNION • MARRIAGES ARE BOUND BY GOD, NOT GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT CAN NO MORE DISSOLVE A MARRIAGE BOND THAN IT CAN CREATE ONE MATTHEW 19:6 ”Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

13. A Divine Bond “BERITH YAWEH” • THE AGREEMENT: In any covenant there must be terms to be observed by both partiesTHE VOWS: a solemn pledge to accept and live by the terms of the agreementTHE RATIFICATION: A public record of the fact that an agreement has been reached • BERITH YAWEH: the witness of God to the terms of the covenant MALACHI 2:14 ”…the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.”

14. A Divine Bond “BERITH YAWEH” • AGREEMENT: MT 1:18VOWS: ROM 7:2RATIFICATION: GEN 29:22-23; 24:69GOD’S WITNESS AND BINDING: MAL 2:14; MT 19:6; Romans 7:2; 1 COR 7:39OBLIGATIONS AND RESTRAINTS: 1 COR 7:1-5 MALACHI 2:14 ”…the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.”

15. A Divine Bond “BERITH YAWEH” • GOD HAS SAID WHOM HE WILL BIND – 1 COR 7:25-28; MT 5:32; Romans 7:1-2; 1 COR 7:39HOWEVER, MEN MARRY EVEN THOUGH GOD REFUSES TO RELEASE THEM FROM A FORMER BINDING – ROM 7:1-2; MK 6:17, 18; HEB 13:4THEREFORE, NOT EVERY MARRIAGE IS A BERITH YAWEH – Ezekiel 17:1-20 MALACHI 2:14 ”…the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.”

16. CHORIZO “to separate, divide, part, put asunder, separate oneself from; to leave a husband or wife, of divorce” A Divine Bond IN THE BEGINNING… • GOD MAKES MARRIAGES; HE PUTS TWO PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A UNION • MARRIAGES ARE BOUND BY GOD, NOT GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT CAN NO MORE DISSOLVE A MARRIAGE BOND THAN IT CAN CREATE ONE MATTHEW 19:6 ”Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”